Theme

This week’s theme is Retro Sci-Fi!
Specifically any science fiction from the 40’s - 60’s. It’s all about clunky robots, giant computers with dials, ray guns, and all the other old cheesy sci-fi tropes you can think of :)
There’s a bonus point if the image matches the media of that era, for example by including cheap effects, obvious costumes, blurry film or anything else you can think of.

Prompt for post image:

a 50s cinemascope movie still of a clunky robot with an blinking lights on it's chest, in a fake looking space ship, a pilot is flying the ship, scene is shot with 8mm film --ar 16:9 --v 6.0
The image turned out better than how I intended :)

Rules

  1. Follow the community’s rules above all else

  2. One comment and image per user

  3. Embed image directly in the post (no external link)

  4. Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun)

  5. At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid

    Prize Points
    Most upvoted +3 points
    Second most upvoted +1 point
    Theme is clear +1 point
    OP’s favorite (me, this week) +1 point
    Most original +1 point
    Last entry (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point
    Prompt and workflow included +1 point
    NEW Era appropriate effects +1 point

  6. Posts that are ex aequo (tied) will both get the points

  7. Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!

Past entries

  1. Dieselpunk
  2. Goosebump Book
  3. Deep Space Wonders
  4. Fairy Tales
  5. A New Sport
  6. Monsters are Back to School
  7. War and Peace
  8. Distant lands
  9. Unreal Cartoons
  10. Sustainable Ecumenopolis
  11. Masks
  12. Mascots
  13. Old Gods, New Jobs
  14. Winter Festivities
  15. High Tech, Low Life
  16. Character Limit
  17. Gatsby’s Jazz Hands
  18. Reel to Canvas
  19. Cruelly Cute Characters

This round’s winners:

Place Winner Points
1 @[email protected] 6
2 @[email protected] 5
2 @[email protected] 5
3 @[email protected] 4
3 @[email protected] 4
  • TrollivierEnglish
    9•2 months ago

    My first submission. I wanted to recreate a Jetsons kinda look of the future, using the colour patterns and designs popular in the 40s.

    Here’s the prompt :

    a retro futuristic city where all buildings have colour patterns that are popular in the 40s. The city looks like the 1940s version of the year 3000. In the back, we can see the ocean with humongous machines shaped like old appliances. We see flying retro robots shooting lasers from their eyes and attacking the city

    • ThelsimOPMEnglish
      3•4 months ago
      Category Points
      Second most upvoted +1
      Last entry +1
      Theme is clear +1
      Workflow included +1
      Era approriate effects +1
      Total 5 points

      Wow, a great first entry! Thank you for joining the fun, I hope you’ll participate again next round! You got 2nd most upvoted and last entry! That’s quite an achievement :)
      You ended up on shared 2nd place, congratulations!

      • TrollivierEnglish
        2•4 months ago

        Will definitely participate again thanks a bunch!